Patents by Inventor Masakazu Nakazawa
Masakazu Nakazawa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240046661Abstract: A display control system is a display control system which is for controlling a first display region and a second display region (a first display screen and a second display screen) arranged in a vehicle, and which includes: an analyzer which obtains captured images of the first display region which displays a video and the second display region which displays a video, and analyzes, based on the captured images obtained, display modes which are a display mode of the video displayed in the first display region and a display mode of the video displayed in the second display region; and an information generator which generates, for each of the display modes, display adjustment information for adjusting the display mode, based on at least a result of analysis by the analyzer, and outputs the display adjustment information generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masakazu NAKAZAWA, Kenji OGA, Yasuhiro ITO, Naoki IKEMOTO
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Patent number: 11865918Abstract: The display control device includes a controller that controls a first display and a second display to control displaying of first information and second information. The controller obtains gaze information indicating a driver's gaze, and the driver's gaze indicated by the gaze information is directed at neither the first display nor the second display. In the situation, if a second event further occurs while the first display is displaying the first information because of the occurrence of a first event, the controller changes the display position of the second information to display the second information on the first display. In the situation, if the first event further occurs while the second display is displaying the second information because of the occurrence of the second event, the controller changes the display position of the first information to display the first information on the second display.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Ikemoto, Nobutaka Kitajima, Mutsumi Kawagoe, Kenji Oga, Masakazu Nakazawa
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Patent number: 11842661Abstract: A control method is performed by an information display system displaying information on one or more display units included in a vehicle. The information display system executes guidance processing for guiding a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle toward a display unit which is not in the line of sight. The control method including: obtaining vicinity information indicating a state of vicinity of the vehicle from a device outside the vehicle; determining whether or not the driver should pay more attention to the state of the vicinity indicated in the vicinity information than the information displayed on the one or more display units; and executing control for suppressing the guidance processing when it is determined that the driver should pay more attention to the state of the vicinity than the information displayed on the one or more display units.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki Kuzu, Koki Doi, Masakazu Nakazawa
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Publication number: 20230205314Abstract: A display control device includes: at least one display, among a plurality of displays, that displays a message; storage that stores a first table for displaying the message; and a processing unit that determines, when information about a vehicle is generated and a display is present in an eye-gaze direction of the user that an eye-gaze detector detects, whether to cause the display to display the message, based on the first table and the eye-gaze direction detected, the display being one of the plurality of displays.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Mutsumi KAWAGOE, Nobutaka KITAJIMA, Kenji OGA, Masakazu NAKAZAWA, Naoki IKEMOTO, Junya YUSA, Kazuki KUZU
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Patent number: 11657709Abstract: A safety confirmation support system includes: a moving object detector which detects a moving object in each of detection regions set around the vehicle; display units each associated with a different one of the detection regions; a line-of-sight detector which detects a line of sight of the driver; and a display controller which controls the display units based on detection results from the moving object detector and the line-of-sight detector. When the moving object is detected in a specified detection region, the display controller (i) displays moving object information on a specified display unit associated with the specified detection region when the line of sight is away from the specified detection region, and (ii) stops display of the moving object information on the specified display unit when the line of sight is towards the specified detection region while the moving object information is displayed on the specified display unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masakazu Nakazawa, Kyoko Ueda, Nobutaka Kitajima, Mutsumi Kawagoe, Tadashi Yoshida, Yasuhiro Ito, Kenji Oga
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Publication number: 20230114559Abstract: The display control device includes a controller that controls a first display and a second display to control displaying of first information and second information. The controller obtains gaze information indicating a driver’s gaze, and the driver’s gaze indicated by the gaze information is directed at neither the first display nor the second display. In the situation, if a second event further occurs while the first display is displaying the first information because of the occurrence of a first event, the controller changes the display position of the second information to display the second information on the first display. In the situation, if the first event further occurs while the second display is displaying the second information because of the occurrence of the second event, the controller changes the display position of the first information to display the first information on the second display.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki IKEMOTO, Nobutaka KITAJIMA, Mutsumi KAWAGOE, Kenji OGA, Masakazu NAKAZAWA
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Publication number: 20230100504Abstract: A control method is performed by an information display system displaying information on one or more display units included in a vehicle. The information display system executes guidance processing for guiding a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle toward a display unit which is not in the line of sight. The control method including: obtaining vicinity information indicating a state of vicinity of the vehicle from a device outside the vehicle; determining whether or not the driver should pay more attention to the state of the vicinity indicated in the vicinity information than the information displayed on the one or more display units; and executing control for suppressing the guidance processing when it is determined that the driver should pay more attention to the state of the vicinity than the information displayed on the one or more display units.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki KUZU, Koki DOI, Masakazu NAKAZAWA
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Publication number: 20220194372Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a camera that detects a merging lane that exists in front of the host vehicle that is traveling and merges with a traveling lane, and a controller that controls the traveling of the host vehicle to change lanes from the traveling lane to an overtaking lane.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobutaka KITAJIMA, Kyoko UEDA, Mutsumi KAWAGOE, Tadashi YOSHIDA, Masakazu NAKAZAWA, Yasuhiro ITO, Kenji OGA
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Publication number: 20220189301Abstract: A safety confirmation support system includes: a moving object detector which detects a moving object in each of detection regions set around the vehicle; display units each associated with a different one of the detection regions; a line-of-sight detector which detects a line of sight of the driver; and a display controller which controls the display units based on detection results from the moving object detector and the line-of-sight detector. When the moving object is detected in a specified detection region, the display controller (i) displays moving object information on a specified display unit associated with the specified detection region when the line of sight is away from the specified detection region, and (ii) stops display of the moving object information on the specified display unit when the line of sight is towards the specified detection region while the moving object information is displayed on the specified display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masakazu NAKAZAWA, Kyoko UEDA, Nobutaka KITAJIMA, Mutsumi KAWAGOE, Tadashi YOSHIDA, Yasuhiro ITO, Kenji OGA
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Patent number: 9658234Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the analysis of a compound with amino group (e.g., an amino acid or peptide) contained in a sample and convenient manner with a high sensitivity. The compound with amino group in a sample containing the compound with amino group is labeled with a specific carbamate compound such as p-trimethylammonium anilyl-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl carbamate iodide to enhance the selectivity and sensitivity. The present invention is preferably used in conjunction with mass spectrometry such as MS/MS method to facilitate quantitative analysis. The present invention further provides labeling reagents for mass spectrometry.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Miyano, Akihisa Yahashi, Kazutaka Shimbo, Masakazu Nakazawa, Kazuo Hirayama
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Publication number: 20160139134Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the analysis of a compound with amino group (e.g., an amino acid or peptide) contained in a sample and convenient manner with a high sensitivity. The compound with amino group in a sample containing the compound with amino group is labeled with a specific carbamate compound such as p-trimethylammonium anilyl-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl carbamate iodide to enhance the selectivity and sensitivity. The present invention is preferably used in conjunction with mass spectrometry such as MS/MS method to facilitate quantitative analysis. The present invention further provides labeling reagents for mass spectrometry.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.Inventors: Hiroshi MIYANO, Akihisa YAHASHI, Kazutaka SHIMBO, Masakazu NAKAZAWA, Kazuo HIRAYAMA
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Patent number: 9274123Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the analysis of a compound with amino group (e.g., an amino acid or peptide) contained in a sample and convenient manner with a high sensitivity. The compound with amino group in a sample containing the compound with amino group is labeled with a specific carbamate compound such as p-trimethylammonium anilyl-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl carbamate iodide to enhance the selectivity and sensitivity. The present invention is preferably used in conjunction with mass spectrometry such as MS/MS method to facilitate quantitative analysis. The present invention further provides labeling reagents for mass spectrometry.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2006Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Miyano, Akihisa Yahashi, Kazutaka Shimbo, Masakazu Nakazawa, Kazuo Hirayama
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Patent number: 8537415Abstract: In an inkjet printer, a feeding side tension applying means is provided with a feeding side tension adjustment mechanism, which is structured of a feeding side ballast arm that is extended toward a winding side tension applying means and vertically swingable around a rotation shaft perpendicular to a feeding direction of a printing medium and a feeding side ballast member that is attached to a tip end of the feeding side ballast arm, and a winding side tension applying means is provided with a winding side tension adjustment mechanism which is structured of a winding side ballast arm that is extended toward the feeding side tension applying means and vertically swingable around a rotation shaft perpendicular to the feeding direction of the printing medium “M” and a winding side ballast member that is attached to a tip end of the winding side ballast arm.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuma Okura, Tetsuharu Ikeda, Takahiro Hasegawa, Masakazu Nakazawa
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Patent number: 8186797Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a platen having a placing face, a printing device, and a printing medium feeding device. A guide is provided on a feeding-out side via which a printing medium is to be fed out from the platen. The guide has a guide face. A printing medium temperature raising device is to heat the guide face so as to raise a temperature of the printing medium placed on the guide face. A temperature raising preventing device is provided between the guide face of the guide and a portion of the placing face facing a printing target region. The temperature raising preventing device is configured to prevent an extended portion of the printing medium from being heated by the printing medium temperature raising device. The extended portion corresponds an area which is extended to the feeding-out side by a predetermined length from the printing target region.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuma Okura, Tetsuharu Ikeda, Takahiro Hasegawa, Masakazu Nakazawa
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Publication number: 20110285801Abstract: An inkjet printer (P) is provided with a platen (20) which supports a printing medium, a printing means comprised of a carriage (40), an inkjet head (60) and the like for performing printing on the printing medium (M) that is supported by the platen (20), a medium feeding device (3) which supports a feeding shaft around which the printing medium (M) in an elongated sheet shape is wound and in which the feeding shaft is rotated to feed out the printing medium (M) toward the platen (20), and a medium winding device (4) which has the same shape as the medium feeding device (3) and supports a winding shaft for winding the printing medium (M) and in which the winding shaft is rotated for winding the printing medium (M) that has been fed out by the medium feeding device (3) and has been printed by the printing means.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2009Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma Okura, Tetsuharu Ikeda, Takahiro Hasegawa, Masakazu Nakazawa
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Publication number: 20110285799Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a platen having a placing face, a printing device, and a printing medium feeding device. A guide is provided on a feeding-out side via which a printing medium is to be fed out from the platen. The guide has a guide face. A printing medium temperature raising device is to heat the guide face so as to raise a temperature of the printing medium placed on the guide face. A temperature raising preventing device is provided between the guide face of the guide and a portion of the placing face facing a printing target region. The temperature raising preventing device is configured to prevent an extended portion of the printing medium from being heated by the printing medium temperature raising device. The extended portion corresponds an area which is extended to the feeding-out side by a predetermined length from the printing target region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma OKURA, Tetsuharu IKEDA, Takahiro HASEGAWA, Masakazu NAKAZAWA
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Publication number: 20110279867Abstract: In an inkjet printer, a feeding side tension applying means is provided with a feeding side tension adjustment mechanism, which is structured of a feeding side ballast arm that is extended toward a winding side tension applying means and vertically swingable around a rotation shaft perpendicular to a feeding direction of a printing medium and a feeding side ballast member that is attached to a tip end of the feeding side ballast arm, and a winding side tension applying means is provided with a winding side tension adjustment mechanism which is structured of a winding side ballast arm that is extended toward the feeding side tension applying means and vertically swingable around a rotation shaft perpendicular to the feeding direction of the printing medium “M” and a winding side ballast member that is attached to a tip end of the winding side ballast arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2009Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma Okura, Tetsuharu Ikeda, Takahiro Hasegawa, Masakazu Nakazawa
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Patent number: 7915224Abstract: The present invention provides a method of preparing an intermediate for LHRH antagonists, which requires fewer steps than conventional methods and provides the intermediate in high yield and high purity.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2009Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventor: Masakazu Nakazawa
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Patent number: 7833760Abstract: The present invention relates to a Variovorax sp. which produces an acylase having an asymmetric hydrolysis activity on an N-acetyl ?-amino acid to selectively produce an R-?-amino acid, and a Burkholderia sp. which produces both an acylase having an asymmetric hydrolysis activity on an N-acetyl ?-amino acid to selectively produce an S-?-amino acid and an acylase having an asymmetric hydrolysis activity of an N-acetyl ?-amino acid to selectively produce an R-?-amino acid, and a process for the selective production of an S-, or R-?-amino acid using the above strains.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu, Hisashi Kawasaki, Kunihiko Watanabe, Masakazu Nakazawa, Kunisuke Izawa
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Patent number: D618722Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masakazu Nakazawa